Former President Donald Trump called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign on Wednesday after the director testified before Congress that he has not noticed any cognitive decline in President Joe Biden.
Wray was questioned by House Republicans on Wednesday about the assassination attempt on Trump earlier this month. During the hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also questioned Wray about his interactions with Biden and if he’s witnessed the president’s cognitive abilities go downhill.
“I don’t meet with him very often, but what you’re describing is not something that I’ve observed during my interactions with him,” Wray said.
“It never occurred to you that he’s not up to [the job] in all these briefings you did?” Gaetz pressed.
“As I said, my briefings with the president have all been completely fine,” Wray replied.
In a post on Truth Social after the hearing, Trump blasted Wray, whom he nominated to serve as FBI director in 2017.
“I watched the Congressional Hearing today as Christopher Wray was asked the question whether or not he noticed any Cognitive Degeneration in his many conversations with Crooked Joe Biden and, despite the fact that Special Counsel Robert Hur said, effectively, that Joe Biden is INCOMPETENT, with LITTLE MEMORY, etc., Wray said that ‘it is not something I observed during my interactions with him, which were uneventful and unremarkable,’ essentially stating that he found nothing wrong, mentally or physically, with ‘Joe,'” Trump said.
“If that is the case, Director Wray should resign immediately from the FBI, and stop ‘sweet talking’ Congress every time he goes up, which he loves to do, because anybody can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically challenged, and if you can’t see that, you sure as hell can’t be running the FBI – Unless, that is, you want to illegally lead the Raid on Mar-a-Lago. Wray has to resign, and NOW, for LYING TO CONGRESS!” he added.
Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign after weeks of pressure from Democrats and the media to step aside following a debate against Trump where the president appeared physically and mentally exhausted. Concerns about Biden’s cognitive state also dominated headlines earlier this year when special counsel Robert Hur released his report on the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.
In his February report, Hur said he would not recommend charges against the president, writing at one point, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Biden gave in to pressure to end his campaign, but said he will finish out the final months of his first term in office. The White House said on Wednesday that Biden’s decision to drop out of the race had “nothing to do with his health.” The president is set to address the American people about his decision on Wednesday night.
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